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More #LK99 good/bad news. Good news is more results have been reported. Bad news is exactly the same. NTU, an excellent university which has sent its students as PhD students and postdocs to CMTC over the years, reports insulating resistivity increasing with decreasing T and...
some diamagnetism (they are continuing their LK99 experiments) and NPL, a top govt lab in India, reports no SC and some diamagnetism in its latest arXiv posting. It is now increasingly difficult to give the benefit of the doubt to the OP by Lee et al
arxiv.org/abs/2308.03544
arxiv.org/abs/2308.03544
An important preprint tonight is from ICQM, a top research center in China (which has several CMTC alumni in its faculty), finds no SC, but small amount of ferromagnetism (not diamagnetism) in tiny flakes of LK99 samples. No SC at all in all 3 reports
arxiv.org/abs/2308.03110
arxiv.org/abs/2308.03110
One aspect of ICQM and NTU (also NPL) results is the extreme high semiconducting/insulating resistivity (increases with decreasing T) with the room temperature resistivity ~ 2.10^5 which is billion times the Cu resistivity. LK99 seems to be an Anti-SC! https://t.co/1Fj69whOITohm.cm
Enquiring minds want to know: Is diamagnetism not interesting? The answer is that NO, diamagnetism is NOT interesting, many materials (e.g. Pb, Cu, P going into LK99) are diamagnetic. It is a run of the mill property. (There are more results, but CMTC cannot divulge them yet.)
With a great deal of sadness, we now believe that the game is over. LK99 is NOT a superconductor, not even at room temperatures (or at very low temperatures). It is a very highly resistive poor quality material. Period. No point in fighting with the truth. Data have spoken.
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